What Does Barack Obama Do All Day?

White House spokesman Jay Carney reiterated today that President Obama was not told of the Petraeus affair, despite its obvious national security implications.

We’ve also been told that Barack Obama did not know about the requests for more security at the US consulate in Benghazi, where the CIA may or may not have been holding captured terrorists. If that story turns out to be true, we’ll be told that Obama didn’t know anything about it.

We’ve also been told that Barack Obama did not know anything about Fast and Furious, the huge operation by which thousands of guns were allowed to walk off and take part in Mexico’s heinous drug war, at a time when Obama just happened to be blaming the violence in that war on US gun rights.

Obama reportedly had very little role in drafting or selling ObamaCare. He outsourced the stimulus to Congress. Democrats complain that he doesn’t even talk to them, much less the Republicans.

So Obama doesn’t know anything that his own administration is doing? Ok. What does the guy do all day? Especially now that the campaign is over.

Bryan Preston has been a leading conservative blogger and opinionator since founding his first blog in 2001. Bryan is a military veteran, worked for NASA, was a founding blogger and producer at Hot Air, was producer of the Laura Ingraham Show and, most recently before joining PJM, was Communications Director of the Republican Party of Texas.

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Look at it this way: Do you actually WANT him in charge of anything important?

I believe there is something he can do–a new White House petition is up asking the Kaiser to strip citizenship from and exile those who signed the secession petitions. I can imagine Barry right now with his list on the Oval Office floor, red pen out, sort of like LBJ selecting targets for Vietnam air strikes.

The petition has about 2,000 sigs. It needs no more, for that number alone will naturally carry far more weight than 70,000.

I always wonder how the President’s supporters rationalize this–if it is true that he doesn’t know anything about what is happening, then he is too incompetent for the job. If it is a lie, he is too corrupt for the job. Is there a third option?

It was the same with Hillary Clinton’s testimony about Whitewater–if she had so little knowledge of her own conduct, she must have suffered brain damage. If not, she was a lying crook. Which one did we get as Sec. of State?

This sounds familiar. I am not saying that Obama is Hitler but it is worth noting this excerpt from The Hitler Myth: Image and Reality in the Third Reich by Ian Kershaw
“And the myth of ‘if only the Fuhrer knew’ was already at work. Many genuinely believed that matters, especially if unpalatable, were deliberately kept from Hitler, and that if he learned of them he would act swiftly to set things right.”

After the last election, in which Teh Won should have gone down in a ball of fire but did not, nobody is going to lecture King Barry The First and his courtiers about how things should be done. We The People have endorsed his feckless do-nothing brand of “leadership” and we are now going to get even more of the same. Good and hard!

And in the future, elections are not going to be determined by the quality and character of the candidates but by who can hustle best and exploit weaknesses in the system and the electorate. The era of great leaders is now over and the decline of the republic inevitable.

I actually sleep better at night, believing that this fool doesn’t know anything and doesn’t do anything.
He’s good at just talkin’, talkin’.
Much better than him actually, you know, governing or something.

Serious answer: He watches TV. I’m not joking. He’s converted a small office in the WH into a TV parlour. He spends the vast majority of his waking hours in there. He watches TV, smokes, and isn’t even dressed to meet anyone (bare feet in sandles, shorts, sometimes a robe). Valerie Jarrett is his connection to the world. He also runs ALL of the decisions he needs to make through her.

He also spends quite a lot of time bowling (there’s a bowling alley in the WH, doesn’t have to leave the building), shooting hoops or golfing.

That’s his life. When he has to, he suits up and goes to a fundraiser to read his teleprompter.

When this all comes out, and eventually it will, people will be shocked to discover that for 4, going on 8, years Valerie Jarrett has been the real POTUS. Most people will have never even heard her name.